Higgs phenomena in asymptotically free gauge theories
Author(s) -
T. P. Cheng,
E. Eichten,
Ling-Fong Li
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.9.2259
Subject(s) - physics , asymptotic freedom , scalar (mathematics) , gauge theory , higgs boson , mathematical physics , yukawa potential , abelian group , theoretical physics , gravitational singularity , tensor (intrinsic definition) , particle physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , mathematics , geometry
We examine in detail the possibility of using the Higgs mechanism to remove the catastrophic infrared singularities in non-Abe&n gauge theories which are symptotically free. Our investigation encompasses theories based on SU(N) or O(N) with scalars in one vector, two vector, M vector, adjoint, tensor and adjoint plus one vector representations. We find that for these theories an S-matrix, in the perturbative sense, and asymptotic freedom can not coexist. We show that a wide class of Yukawa couplings can be ignored in studying the large momentum properties of the scalar couplings.
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